The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-14
A HARVEST OF DEATH
Further News of the Catas.
trOphe at Chatsworth.
ARE SECTION HANDS LIABLE
Another FieDdish Attempt to HurI q
Train From a High Trestle
Bridge-General News.
The Chatsworth Horror.

CHICAGO. August ia special from
Chatsworth, to-day, to the Chicago
Evening NelCs, says: Although mp to
the present the dead, including the
bodies recovered from the wreck last
night, number not more than seventy
seven, there is reasonable room Tor the
belief that there have been other deaths,
perhaps half dozen, resulting from
the tragedy which cannot be definitely
reported, owing to the confusion and
lack of system when the bodies wens
being taken away. Neither can full list
be presented for score of whose injuries
were light enough to permit it, took
trains at Chatsworth or Piper City the
first opportunity, and went home. The
official list of the wounded who have
been taken care OF here and at Pyper
City, does not at present show any
more than that were injured. The
coroner's inquest to-day adjourned till
Tuesday afternoon, after one witness
had been examined. He was 81. w.
Messler, grain dealer, at ChatsWorth,
The only thing notable about his evil
dence was the statement that although
he was the first one at the wreck, and
remained there until the first relief, he
saw no interference OF anyone with the
valuables of the victims.
A Peoria list of the deaths resulting
from the Chatsworth catastrophe con-
tains the following not mentioned in
the revised Inter-OceGn'S list sent out
last night: Mrs. George E. Meek, Mrs.
Miller and Mrs. E E. Putney, of Peoria;
Henry or Oscar Johnson, of Monarch,
ILL.,; Eza Hill, of Orange Prairie, H.;
Mamie Clark, aged IA, and Jolly Clark,
aged 8, residence unknown. These,
however, are not understood to be in
addition to the total number of victims,
but are the supposed names of victims
wrongly identified in Chatsworth.
The Inter Oceans Forest, ILL.,, special
SAYS: Your correspondent has found
number of men at Piper City, who posi-.
lively contradict the testimony of TIM
othy Coughlan, section boss, that he and
his gang pat out all the fires along the
track before they left their work Mon
day. These men were of the party
which went from Piper City to the wreck
on hand car. They say as they passed
along the track east of the wreck, they
saw fire burning in the hedges and
grass all the way along. The best evi
dences obtainable are that the fire
built by the section hands was within
100 rods of the burning bridge when it
was left. There is general sentiment
among the residents here that the sec
ton men we're largely to blame.
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., August ia
report has just reached town of another
fiendish attempt at train wrecking on
the Burlington and Missouri road, at
place ten miles west of that last night.
AS the passenger train was crossing the
trestIe bridge across deep rayine, the
woodwork was discovered on fire. An
Investigation disclosed the fact that the
stringers and bracers were entirely con-
sumed and the bridge in shaky condi-
ton. The fact that the train was an
unusually light one prevented fearful
catastrophe. Detectives are working
up the matter.